So after getting some new stuff Dragonforged I went back to BBI to run through it a 2nd time.

I still don't feel like I was doing tons of damage to the firedrake but I was still managing to bring him down until a cursed dragon showed up as well and I said screw this and ran away.

Since then it was relatively smooth sailing. Death would show up to be his usual deathy self but otherwise it wasn't too bad. That is until I got to the room with the two gore cyclops. So I go to run around a corner and a hell hound jumps around the corner, knocks me down, and drags me into the main room. By the time I got free one of the enemy pawns casts that storm and I get knocked into the air and killed. Well my body is in the air I can't wakestone or enter the menu, I look down and I see 3 garms, a bunch of enemy pawns, a bunch of hellhounds, Death, some strigoi and the gorecyclops all down below around where I'm going to fall circling like vultures. Yep, didn't bring nearly enough lube for this.

After an hour of attempts I manage to get by. Little did I know the next room would be just as painful if not more so. So I'm the room where I originally fought the living armor there's now two of the blue dragons who cast spells and holy shit does this have to be one of the toughest fights I've ever had. The spell mechanics are just brutal. I can do decent enough damage to both of them but the nonstop spell spam is just insane. I would get hit by one spell and then just chain stunned and killed repeatedly. Ive had a couple times in the past where I'd use a wakestone and then get killed right after but this had me using 3+ wakestone on average before I was able to get out from being chain casted on, on top of that it seems like the dragons would regenerate some health somehow too. Decided to call it a night and come back to it tomorrow. Going to try a couple more times as I am now and if that fails I may switch out my sword for daggers for the instant reset to help with being chain spell stunned.

After this I just have Awakened Daimon left.

Oh also I tried switching my pawns vocation to strider before I decurse my stuff and it's definitely helping out! Now I just need a new sword and I'll be good.

From all my experience as a warrior, which was about half an hour with a ring of perseverance and asura armor, I honestly can't imagine any room that wouldn't be hellish. Except maybe leapworm halls.

Oh, and re: gorecyclops room, if you're cheap and/or made of glass as most of my arisens are, you can rush underneath the nearest one and head toward the stairs to the exit. Once he's free, he can't follow you, and will continue swinging at you. If you've got any sort of ranged attack, you can chip away at him until he falls. Your pawns will not understand, though, and will repeatedly get themselves killed.

The maelstrom pawns are a pain and are usually the first thing I deal with when I run in there.


This garm got stuck in a wall last night and seemed to be quite pleased with its hidey hole


Then Seel got creative with a Levin and lured it back out

I think he learned that technique from one of my arisens.

Ok so I purified 42 items after going through BBI a 2nd time, I was an assassin and my pawn a strider and all I got that was usable was a helm ;_; so that makes for 2 usable items for my vocation in 2 runs.

Err I still haven't beat Awakened Daimon though. It was taking too long so I decided to go at it again later.

Yeah, it's never a good idea to be a hybrid vocation when you purify stuff if you want certain things. Assassins are considered a yellow vocation in terms of armor, and if you stay as an assassin when you purify stuff, you run the risk of getting red vocation gear.

In addition, you can always godsbane/reload and try again if you didn't like what you got.

My goodness, welcome back, Cool Aunt Coldi! Good to see you!

I assume those 13 weeks were spent on tour with Rog and the band. If not, don't burst my bubble.

And I haven't played in... 17 hours? Maybe? Something in that range.

The only thing that will stop me is the servers shutting down. I've pretty much pushed all other games aside. I bought a game in February I haven't even taken out of the packaging yet.

I did, but only one playthrough and didn't even get my onion helm because I headed in the wrong direction and lost out. I was planning on playing it through again, but every time I get the chance, I think, hey, I could be gathering pictures instead.

I thought I would've been bored out of my mind by now with this game, but I'm not. I don't really play it anymore, but getting a picture that fits so perfectly to something I've written is pretty much the same sense of accomplishment as clearing BBI and getting something that isn't a blasphemer's cloak.

A serious dilemma I face in DDDA: I get a great new armor piece but it doesn't match with my current look D:

The sad part is what looks best always end a up winning out for me >.>

I'm doing another run through BBI and this time solo. I'm amazed at how much more effective I feel even though my stats aren't that drastically higher compared to before. I'm already 2/3 through it and I haven't been having many issues. The worst thing to deal with is probably the tentacles in the chests since I don't think I can avoid they're initial grab.

I'm a bit surprised regarding Death especially. In my first 2 runs through BBI I never even  did a full health bar worth of damage.  This time alone I've done 3 1/2 bars so far and I'm not even done the first run through BBI this play through yet.

I'm pretty much the same way with my helms. I actually just got Helm of Oblivion yesterday funny enough. I took one look at it and went lolnupe.

I basically stick to those 3 you mentioned as well, and also a couple other ones from the main game as well.

I just finished getting the Trophy Set and I really like how this one looks.